The AI ​​race is heating up just in time for winter.

Like my colleagues Kylie Robison and Tom Warren reported, OpenAI is eyeing a December debut for its next flagship AI model. Fittingly, Google is also aiming to release its next major Gemini 2.0 model in the same month, sources familiar with the plan said. As OpenAI and Google continue their game of trying to one-up each other, xAI, Meta and Anthropic are all racing to debut their next frontier models.

While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing a gradual rollout of the successor to GPT-4, starting first with its business partners, my sources say that Google plans to release the next version of Gemini widely at first. I have heard that the model does not show the performance gains Demis Hassabis-led team had hoped for, although I still expect some interesting new abilities. (The talk I hear in AI circles is that this trend is happening in companies developing leading, large models.)